Emission of non thermal microwave radiation by a Martian dust storm

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Ruf, Christopher ^a   Renno, Nilton O ^a   Kok, Jasper F ^a   Bandelier, Etienne ^a   Sander, Michael J ^b   Gross, Steven ^a   Skjerve, Lyle ^b   Cantor, Bruce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SPACE NETWORKS; ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH ORDER; MARTIAN DUST; MARTIAN SURFACE; NON-THERMAL MICROWAVES; NON-THERMAL RADIATION; NONTHERMAL; SCHUMANN RESONANCES; SPHERICAL CAVITIES; STANDING WAVE;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DUST; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HEAT RADIATION; IONOSPHERE; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIATION; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; STORMS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

DETECTION METHOD; DUST STORM; EMISSION; MARS; MICROWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 70349260282     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038715     Document Type: Article

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